Stephen Downes

The highlight of this post has to be the 'Bitter Lesson' video crafted by AI to explain the concept Ethan Mollick has in mind: "the hard truth, learned over and over again, that things that we thought required elaborate human rules and thinking can be solved with the brute force of better machine learning systems and more AI." At least, I thought the video was pretty good. In the current case, the task is AI agent orchestration, which people thought would require a lot of human oversight. Not so much. Now we have Dot and Muse and Grok Bot, Instinct, and Gemini Spark all doing this work. Next up: swarms of AI agents.